Chris Marker Movies

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

Video on the mass media response to the bardo-traversing of Steve Jobs. Long live the archive and the archivist.

Berlin 1990 travels the streets and the political landscape of the recently re-unified Berlin. In the tumultuous atmosphere of 1990, we watch...

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations...

This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.

Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of...

Chris Marker films a cat reacting to the sound of a piano playing.

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

A portrait of the Chilean artist Roberto Matta leading Marker on a wise and funny private guided tour of his solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center.

A young man, who served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a few months during the war, recounts his experiences. Throughout the film, we...

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.

On September the 4th, 1969, a group of Brazilian revolutionaries kidnap the U.S. ambassador. In exchange for his release, they demand that the...

A subway jigsaw of Marker's work: PASSENGERS.

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

Chris Marker's cat and rat.

Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead....

This is where sizzling fire still smoldering in a war which everybody talked a lot and which we rarely had the opportunity to hear the actors. Once...

An historical "if"